Story by Kyler Hood | Commander Navy Region Hawaii | 12.05.2025
This year’s Pearl Harbor Day observance marks the 84th anniversary of the surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet by Japanese forces. The commemoration honors and remembers the more than 2,400 service members and civilians who died on Dec. 7, 1941, and plunged the U.S. into World War II. On that fateful day, 21 ships were damaged or sunk including the USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Utah (AG......
Story by Ensign Drew Verbis | Naval Base Ventura County | 05.25.2022
LANCASTER, Calif. - 81 years after being killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor , Shipfitter 1st Class Charles F. Perdue, assigned to the Nevada-class battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was laid to rest May 8, 2022....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Sean Everette | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 02.05.2021
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced the 300th identification of a previously unaccounted-for service member from the USS Oklahoma was made at the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska on Jan. 28....
Courtesy Story | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 11.06.2020
On Nov. 6th 2020, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Honolulu, Hawaii, a small group of service members from the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) gathered to honor and lay to rest U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class James M. Flanagan, who had been killed almost 70 years prior....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Pacheco | Fleet Public Affairs Center Detachment Pearl Harbor | 09.14.2019
Nearly 78 years after he died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, Navy Seaman 2nd Class Wilbur Clayton Barrett was finally laid to rest in his hometown of El Dorado, Kansas, September 14....
Story by Lt. Charity Edgar | Navy Operational Support Center Rock Island | 09.03.2019
Nearly 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the United States into World War II, a Sailor killed in action aboard the ill-fated USS Oklahoma finally returned home to Cedar Rapids, Iowa....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Corwin Colbert | Commander Navy Region Hawaii | 06.07.2019
Radioman 3rd Class Jack Goldwater was finally given a hero's burial during an ash scattering at the USS Utah Memorial on Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 08.22.2018
Crisp white uniforms contrast the verdant green sea of the cemetery. Some of them bear ceremonial rifles while the rest gather under a small awning, standing at perfect attention. A wall of silver-haired veterans render a somber salute, the medals stippling their hats gleaming under the noon-day sun. A family of three sits in the front of the crowd as the white uniforms float a flag-draped......
